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Chen Jin appears to be a spent force.
He has been beaten by lower ranked and unheralded players and has been shown the exit in early stages of tournaments.
I hope that he gets well if he is injured.
Liew Darren did well to stretch Du Pengyu to 3 games and the score was close.
Hopefully the only Malaysians left, GWS/LKW, will do well in the QF.

seems like japan and thailand have arrived as powerful badminton nations ... they have performed well consistently in many tournaments. indonesia and korea is struggling but is ok for now.. although they seem to be on a downward trend too.. china maintains. malaysia is nowhere to be found
the changing of the guards is a painful thing

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I haven't checked and counted how many of the 39 countries did send participants to this 2011 BAC event.
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21 countries participated:

Bangladesh

Cambodia

China

Chinese Taipei

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Iraq

Japan

Korea

Malaysia

Maldives

Mongolia

Philippines

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Syria

Thailand

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

I think it's odd that North Korea is not good at badminton, because the sport has such a strong presence in East and Southeast Asia. This is in strong contrast to table tennis, where they are pretty good.

I think it's odd that North Korea is not good at badminton, because the sport has such a strong presence in East and Southeast Asia. This is in strong contrast to table tennis, where they are pretty good.

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Thanks Gicutzu,

So out of the 21 countries, we have 8 remaining at the Quarter-Finals.
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I think it's odd that North Korea is not good at badminton, because the sport has such a strong presence in East and Southeast Asia. This is in strong contrast to table tennis, where they are pretty good.